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Fluid instabilities like Rayleigh-Taylor,Richtmyer-Meshkov and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability can occur in a wide range of physical phenomenon from astrophysical context to Inertial Confinement Fusion(ICF).Using Layzer's potential flow model,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Manoranjan Khan , Labakanta Mandal , Rahul Banerjee , Sourav Roy , M. R. Gupta

In the present paper, we study the evolutionary conditions for Kelvin--Helmholtz (KH) instability in a high-temperature solar surge observed in NOAA AR11271 using the Solar Dynamics Observatory data on 2011 August 25. We study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 I. Zhelyazkov , R. Chandra , A. K. Srivastava , T. Mishonov

We investigate the convective stability of a thin, infinite fluid layer with a rectangular cross-section, subject to imposed heat fluxes at the top and bottom and fixed temperature along the vertical sides. The instability threshold depends…

The article considers implications of tilt symmetry (symmetry with respect to tilting of the coordinate axis with respect to which vortex motion is studied) in the non-linear dynamics of Kelvin waves. The conclusion is that although the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 E. B. Sonin

It is shown that instability of homogeneous precession is caused by combined effect of anisotropy of spin wave velocities and dipole interaction. In the principal order on the ratio of the Leggett frequency to the Larmor frequency the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-07-14 E. V. Surovtsev , I. A. Fomin

Turbulent flows over dense canopies of rigid filaments of small size are investigated for different element heights and spacings using DNS. The flow can be decomposed into the element-coherent, dispersive flow, the Kelvin--Helmholtz-like…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-21 Akshath Sharma , Ricardo García-Mayoral

This article presents a phenomenological dynamic phase transition theory -- modeling and analysis -- for superfluids. As we know, although the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model has been successfully used in superconductivity, and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-12 Tian Ma , Shouhong Wang

These lecture notes provide an introduction to non-equilibrium superfluid 3He, with applications to high-frequency excitations, including aspects of symmetry breaking in 3He and its effects on collective mode dynamics. In 1957 Landau…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-11-16 J. A. Sauls

The shear-flow-driven instability can play an important role in energy transfer processes in coronal plasma. We present for the first time the observation of a kink-like oscillation of a streamer probably caused by the streaming kinkmode…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Li Feng , Bernd Inhester , Weiqun Gan

Superfluidity and superconductivity have been studied widely since the last century in many different contexts ranging from nuclear matter to atomic quantum gases. The rigidity of these systems with respect to external perturbations results…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-05 A. Paris-Mandoki , J. Shearring , F. Mancarella , T. M. Fromhold , A. Trombettoni , P. Krüger

We study the stability of shear flows in a fully ionized plasma. Kelvin-Helmholtz is a well known, macroscopic and ideal shear-driven instability. In sufficiently low density plasmas, also the microscopic Hall magneto-shear instability can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-27 Daniel O. Gomez , Cecilia Bejarano , Pablo D. Mininni

Stability of cylindrical interface between two ideal incompressible fluids, including the magnetic field, surface tension and gravitational field is studied in linear approximation. We found that helical waves arising both in plasma comet…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-04 A. I. Ershkovich , P. L. Israelevich

Superfluid 3He is an unconventional neutral superfluid in a p-wave state with three different superfluid phases each identified by a unique set of characteristic broken symmetries and non- trivial topology. Despite natural immunity of 3He…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-22 W. P. Halperin

Superfluid 3He-A gives example of how chirality, Weyl fermions, gauge fields and gravity appear in low energy corner together with corresponding symmetries, including Lorentz symmetry and local SU(N). This supports idea that quantum field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. E. Volovik

Paraxial fluids of light have recently emerged as promising analogue physical simulators of quantum fluids using laser propagation inside nonlinear optical media. In particular, recent works have explored the versatility of such systems for…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-21 Tiago D. Ferreira , Jakub Garwola , Nuno A. Silva

The flow of quantized vortex lines in superfluid 3He-B is laminar at high temperatures, but below 0.6 Tc turbulence becomes possible, owing to the rapidly decreasing mutual friction damping. In the turbulent regime a vortex evolving in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-23 R. Hanninen , V. B. Eltsov , A. P. Finne , R. de Graaf , J. Kopu , M. Krusius , R. E. Solntsev

We have carried out high resolution MHD simulations of the nonlinear evolution of Kelvin-Helmholtz unstable flows in 2 1/2 dimensions. The modeled flows and fields were initially uniform except for a thin shear layer with a hyperbolic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. W. Jones , Joseph B. Gaalaas , Dongsu Ryu , Adam Frank

We investigate the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability occuring at the interface of a shear flow configuration in 2D compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The linear growth and the subsequent non-linear saturation of the instability are studied…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Keppens , G. Toth , R. H. J. Westermann , J. P. Goedbloed

The purpose of this study is to analyze the dynamical role of a radiation field on the growth rate of the unstable Kelvin - Helmholtz (KH) perturbations. As a first step toward this purpose, the analyze is done in a general way,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Mohsen Shadmehri , Zahra Enayati , Mahdi Khajavi

In the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superfluid $^{3}$He, the free energy is expressed as an expansion of invariants of a complex order parameter. Strong coupling effects, which increase with increasing pressure, are embodied in the set of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-11-22 H. Choi , J. P. Davis , J. Pollanen , T. M. Haard , W. P. Halperin